BACKGROUND: The study was conducted to evaluate the performance of a state-of-the-art commercial deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (DL-CAD) system for detecting and characterizing pulmonary nodules.
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Nov 9, 2018
Deep two-dimensional (2-D) convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been remarkably successful in producing record-breaking results in a variety of computer vision tasks. It is possible to extend CNNs to three dimensions using 3-D kernels to make th...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Nov 6, 2018
The size and shape of a nodule are the essential indicators of malignancy in lung cancer diagnosis. However, effectively capturing the nodule's structural information from CT scans in a computer-aided system is a challenging task. Unlike previous mod...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Nov 3, 2018
Computed tomography (CT)-based screening on lung cancer mortality is poised to make lung nodule management a growing public health problem. Biopsy and pathologic analysis of suspicious nodules is necessary to ensure accurate diagnosis and appropriate...
The accurate identification of malignant lung nodules on chest CT is critical for the early detection of lung cancer, which also offers patients the best chance of cure. Deep learning methods have recently been successfully introduced to computer vis...
OBJECTIVE: A novel computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme for lung nodule detection using a 3D deep convolutional neural network combined with a multi-scale prediction strategy is proposed to assist radiologists by providing a second opinion on accura...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Aug 31, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In pulmonary nodule detection, the first stage, candidate detection, aims to detect suspicious pulmonary nodules. However, detected candidates include many false positives and thus in the following stage, false positive redu...
Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related fatality in the world. Patients display few or even no signs or symptoms in the early stages, resulting in up to 75% of patients diagnosed in the later stages of the disease. Consequently, th...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 29, 2018
PURPOSE: Understanding decisions of deep learning techniques is important. Especially in the medical field, the reasons for a decision in a classification task are as crucial as the pure classification results. In this article, we propose a new appro...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 28, 2018
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In medical examinations doctors use various techniques in order to provide to the patients an accurate analysis of their actual state of health. One of the commonly used methodologies is the x-ray screening. This examination...
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